Does SAN Make Tape Backups Obsolete?

Posted by khess on Feb 2, 2011 7:07 PM EDT
Data Center Knowledge; By Ken Hess
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It’s time to toss tape in favor of SAN for reliable backup and restore solutions. Don’t forget to update your resume on your way out to the dumpster with those tapes.

There’s a lot of buzz these days surrounding the idea that SAN is inexpensive enough to use for backups, obviating the need for those clunky old tape libraries, changing out thousands of tapes per week, hiring staff to manage tape media and transporting tapes to an offsite storage facility. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to rid yourself of the expense and hassle of all that tape? It would, if it were possible. But, it isn’t.

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